JamesInTurkey.com
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Explainer: Turkey’s presidential system
A comprehensive briefing on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's plans to introduce an executive presidency to Turkey
Monday 12 December 2016
Erdoğan the impartial
Unusually, Turkey’s president uses the ceremonial trappings of his office to urge consensus
Tuesday 22 November 2016
Explainer: Decriminalising sexual abuse in Turkey
It is hard to spot the good intentions in the AK Party’s attempt to keep young families together
Tuesday 22 November 2016
HDP operation: which MPs have been arrested?
Live spreadsheet listing the status of MPs from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) following Friday morning's wave of arrests
Friday 4 November 2016
‘Tayyip Erdoğan is finished’
A newspaper headline about the future Turkish president that got it so, so wrong
Wednesday 2 November 2016
Warrants, arrests for Cumhuriyet’s editor and board
Turkey's most consistent opposition newspaper appears to be on the verge of being seized
Monday 31 October 2016
Turkey centralises 28 mostly Kurdish local authorities
An interactive map of the councils seized by Turkish authorities under state of emergency powers
Monday 19 September 2016
An interior minister bows out
Efkan Ala's departure illustrates the direction in which power flows within Turkey's cabinet
Thursday 1 September 2016
The demographic that took to the streets
A pollster finds Turkey's pro-democracy demonstrators are also overwhelmingly pro-government
Tuesday 9 August 2016
Turkey’s toothy smile of unity
Ignoring the country’s most successful Kurdish party does not bode well for peace in the southeast
Monday 8 August 2016